Wakaleo vanderleueri Clemens and Plane 1974 (diprotodont marsupial)

Mammalia - Diprotodontia - Thylacoleonidae

Full reference: W. A. Clemens and M. Plane. 1974. Mid'Tertiary Thylacoleonidae (Marsupialia, Mammalia). Journal of Paleontology 48(4):652-660

Belongs to Wakaleo according to A. K. Gillespie et al. 2019

See also Gillespie et al. 2014 and Myers et al. 2001

Sister taxa: Wakaleo alcootaensis, Wakaleo oldfieldi, Wakaleo pitikantensis, Wakaleo schouteni

Type specimen: CP 13527, a mandible (right mandibular fragment containing M1). Its type locality is Small Hills locality, which is in a Miocene terrestrial limestone in the Camfield Beds Formation of Australia.

Ecology: scansorial omnivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of Australia (3 collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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